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Can the start of auto enrollment be pushed out or does it have to start within a certain period from meeting eligibility in the plan? Suppose a company currently has a Safe Harbor plan with one year eligibility and a QACA/auto enrollment feature in place. If the company wanted to offer immediate eligibility but did not want the auto enrollment feature to kick in until the second year of employment/eligibility, would that be allowable? This might create more of burden with explaining it in the annual notice, but otherwise I'm not able to find a specific citation that would prevent such a delay in starting the auto enrollment. In describing the minimum initial percentage, the regulations (I'm looking at 1.401(k)-3(j)) do not seem to tie the initial period to eligibility or any specific date. Does anyone see a problem with delaying auto enrollment like this? Thanks!
